If the player invokes Restore while the ship's shield is disabled, the shield isn't properly charged. EDIT: In this situation, Domina should repair armor instead.

Stations and repair kits can repair armor segments at 0 hp (1.7 alpha), but Restore can't. Restore should be able to repair armor regardless of its damage level.

It would also be nice if the player could choose from a dockscreen whether to let Domina restore armor or shields. Currently, Domina only repairs armor if a shield isn't installed. Since armor is tougher than shields, the current Domina functionality biases the player toward playing without a shield installed.

gunship256 wrote:Weapon and shield enhancers should pull up dockscreens allowing the player to choose which weapon should be enhanced:

gunship256 wrote:It would also be nice if the player could choose from a dockscreen whether to let Domina restore armor or shields.

Those would be content changes (albeit minor ones), not fixes. On the other hand, just having Domina not try to recharge a disabled shield could be argued to be a fix — I can’t see how that would be considered to be desired behavior. Domina does need be able to repair armor below 25%, though, if stations can do it now.

AssumedPseudonym wrote:On the other hand, just having Domina not try to recharge a disabled shield could be argued to be a fix — I can’t see how that would be considered to be desired behavior.

Restore currently doesn't recharge disabled shields. I'm suggesting as a fix that Restore first enable the shield automatically without the player's needing to use the 'B' key, then recharge it. Sorry - I think my wording was unclear. I'll fix it on the Ministry post.

The mod that I linked to does automatically enable shields before recharging them.

Domina shouldn’t try to recharge a disabled shield, I mean. If your shield is disabled, She should just go straight to patching up your armor, instead. (If the shield is disabled, odds are that either it was done deliberately, it was drawing too much power for the reactor, or you have meteorsteel armor — none of which are situations where it would make sense to enable and recharge it since you would either just want to disable it again or it would get automatically disabled again on its own.) I could have been clearer on that, myself.